Bloomberg Virtual reality is on the cusp of becoming mainstream, but one startup in Japan is betting the technology won’t really succeed unless it cracks one critical piece of the puzzle: human eyeballs. Fove Inc. is introducing the world’s first commercially available VR goggles equipped with tiny infrared cameras to follow eye movements. By tracking human irises, the gadget ...

  London / AFP Asian and European stock markets rallied on Thursday and energy-linked currencies advanced after OPEC’s shock deal to trim oil output. The announcement on Wednesday lit a fire temporarily under oil prices, sending petroleum-linked shares surging on Wall Street and later across Asian and European stock markets. Despite crude later falling back on doubts about the cartel ...

  Dubai / Reuters Saudi Arabia’s stock market rebounded in afternoon trade on Thursday on the back of petrochemical stocks, which rallied in response to OPEC’s production deal to restrain output and prop up oil prices. The main Saudi index dropped as much as 1.0 percent in early trade, continuing a slide triggered by this week’s announcement of austerity measures ...